James
WEBBER was born on 12 Jan 1807 in Clam Bay, NS. James3 Webber (Peter2, George1)
was b. 12 Jan. 1807. He m. Abigail Susan Dooks, 19 Sept. 1836 at St. Paul's,
Halifax. She was b. ca. 1819 at Head of Jeddore, the daughter of Joseph Dooks
and Elizabeth Holman, and d. 1 Aug. 1889, bur. St. John's, Oyster Pond. He was
enumerated in the 1838 census of Jeddore as a coaster heading a family of himself,
wife and one young daughter. In 1851 he was enumerated at Clam Harbour with
four children. He d. in the 1850s. His widow took her family to Oyster Pond
and lived with her brother in law, William Webber, at the time of the 1871-81
census.
children:
i. Elizabeth, b. ca. 1837, Head of Jeddore, m. Alexander Philip Mitchell, lv.
Oyster Pond, probably d. 27 April 1893, bur. St. John's, Oyster Pond.
ii. son, b. ca. 1839, at home in 1851 census.
28. iii. James Mark, b. 29 Dec. 1840, Clam Harbour, m. Catherine Lydia Dooks.
29. iv. John Peter, b. 12 April 1842, Clam Harbour, m. Rebecca Ann Stevens.
v. Nancy Margaret, b. 184_, Clam Harbour, at home in 1851, m. Henry Baker, 29
Nov. 1868 at Jeddore by Rev. James Meadows, lv. Halifax, d. before 1908.
F In the 1881 census Permelia Alexandra Webber, æ. 14 years (the daughter
of the late John Peter Webber and Rebecca Ann Stevens); and Nancy Webber, æ.
5 years, both recorded as born at Boston, Massachusetts, lived with this family
at Oyster Pond.
Parents: Peter John WEBBER and
Elizabeth R. MERRYWEATHER.

Johann
Georg WEBBER died in 1776 in South Carolina, USA. He was born @1712 in possibly
Berschweiler, Germany. Johann Georg was our emigrant ancestor on the Weber side,
emigrating from what was probably Berschweiler, Germany with his wife Katharina
and 5 surviving children Johann Georg II, Friedrich, Susanna, Barbara and Heinrich
in July, 1764 after meeting the previous fall with Johann Heinrich von Stumpel,
acting as the King's representative, and being seduced by his promises of free
land in a New World. Along with about 500 others, the family made their way to
Bingen and then headed down the Rhine on boats to Rotterdam, a journey which
took about two weeks since each day there were dozens of stops at toll stations
and customs stations in the river. From Rotterdam, they boarded a ship to London.

On arrival in London in August 1764, von Stumpel and their possessions were nowhere
to be seen and the shipmasters refused to take the "poor Palatines"
any further, having only been partially paid to transport them. The Germans ended
up in Whitechapel Fields, with no shelter, food or money. Luckily for them, a
German minister named Reverend Wachsel became aware of their plight and, with
his parishioners, brought tents and food for them. After pleading to the authorities
for help through a letter published in the London Chronicle on August 31, 1764,
a committee was established to determine the fate of the Palatines. In the end,
with His Majesty the King's permission, it was decided that they should be taken
to South Carolina rather than Nova Scotia.

The Weber family and the others, who now numbered only 350, boarded the Dragon
and the Union and headed for Charlestown, South Carolina the second week of -October.
They would arrive nine weeks and 40 more deaths later on December 14 and 16,
1764. It would be many more months before Johann Georg would be granted land,
350 acres in District 96 in the rugged South Carolina backlands, near to Cuffytown
Creek where a lot was granted to his son, Johann George II and his family. It
was not mentioned to the new settlers that there had been previous problems with
the Cherokee Indians in the area, and that they would provide a buffer between
them and the plantations along the coast.

It took two weeks of riding to reach Ninety-Six from Charlestown. An advance
party had been sent to build a hut at Cuffytown Creek for the families to stay
in through the rest of the winter before they could start building their houses
and clearing their land in the spring. Each family was allocated ten pounds in
gold to help build a house, they got tools and seeds, and according to the number
of people in each family it was allocated certain amounts of dried goods and
livestock.

Life in Ninety-Six was hard and lawless. It was not a pleasant place to be.
Then, the Civil War started.

Johann Georg is said to have died in 1776, aged 64. At this time the civil war
was on and his family had been torn apart. His sons had been active on the Loyalist
side, and both of his daughters had married into the Rebel side. Heinrich had
disappeared, gone to the Indian Nation it was said, Friedrich was blind and Georg
was in hiding.

It was a sad ending to the future that had been anticipated.

(The book"Blood Traitors" by Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle was
used to write the above biography, and is a must-read for descendants of this
and other Loyalist families from South Carolina.)

Johann
Georg II WEBBER was born on 18 Oct 1741 in Germany. He died prob. btwn
1811-1820 in Nova Scotia. Johann Georg Weber (known as George Webber in North
America, sometimes recorded as Weaver) was, per family tradition, born 18 Oct
1741 in Germany, but on the January 1765 passenger lists to South Carolina, he
is given as age 25 years, making his date of birth 1739. He was the eldest son
of Johann George Weber (born around 1712) and Catarina ?? (born around 1718),
who also emigrated to South Carolina with George's surviving siblings (Frederick
@20 years old, Susanna @19 years old, Barbara @16 years old and Heinrich @11
years old).

He married (1) Barbara ?? in Germany, and she came to South Carolina with him,
being age 23 years in December 1764. He married (2) Elizabeth ??. On Capt. William
Shaw's 2 June 1784 muster list of Loyalist settlers at Ship Harbour, the wife
of John George Webber is given as Elizabeth. She lived until after 1800 and her
name appears on a land deed dated 1 Aug 1800.

In 1763, Johann Heinrich Christian von Stumpell, a Hanoverian officer in the
Prussian army, began negotiating with the British government for a grant of land
in Nova Scotia on which to settle Protestant, primarily German, immigrants. In
the summer of 1764, he began to recruit families in the Rheinland to settle on
this land, yet to be obtained from the British Crown. Some 400 German families,
including the Johann George Weber family, arrived in London expecting to move
on to Nova Scotia.

Von Stumpell, having taken from these families their passage money and valuables
"for protection," then absconded, leaving the Germans penniless on
the docks of London. The British Crown, on hearing of their plight, suggested,
reflecting a shift on colonial policy, that they be given land in South Carolina
instead of Nova Scotia, and a bounty was paid for their passage there.

The Webber family arrived in Charleston, South Carolina on 16 December 1764,
probably on the Union, and they took the oath of allegiance on 26 February 1765
at Charleston.

On 23 Aug 1765 George Webber Jr. was granted 200 acres of land (the allotment
for a man with wife and one child over age 2 years) on Cuffytown Creek, near
his father's 350-acre grant in District 96, the rugged South Carolina backlands.

The younger Webber couple are said to have had twelve children, of whom only
six survived to accompany the family to Nova Scotia.

During the Revolutionary War, the younger George Webber and his elder sons served
in Capt. Thomas Pearson's Regiment of the Little River Militia, 96 Brigade, in
the same company as Lawrence Marks, later to be another Ship Harbour Loyalist
settler.

The Webber family withdrew from District 96 to Charleston with the British forces
in the summer of 1781 and evacuated with the British from Charleston to Halifax
in late 1782, arriving at Halifax on the Royal Navy troopship Argo on 21 Nov
1782.

The Webber family spent the winter of 1782-83 at Halifax in tents, and moved
out with other Loyalist and military settlers to Ship Harbour in May 1783. As
a part of the ad hoc Associated Loyalists of South Carolina, he was given former
permission in June 1783 by the governor of Nova Scotia to settle at Ship Harbour.
He was on a 21 Aug 1783 list of settlers at Ship Harbour who were to be victualled
over the winter from government stocks. Charles Morris surveyed lots at Ship
Harbour for this group on 13 March 1784, in which George Webber was assigned
Lot #8, some 200 acres on the western side of Ship Harbour, and he received title
to this land as a part of a grant made to Capt. Thomas Green. The Webber family
was included on Capt. William Shaw's 2 June 1784 muster list of Loyalist refugees
then at Ship Harbour.

In July 1786, he filed a claim to the Loyalist Claims Commission for L471 in
compensation for property left behind in South Carolina. Of this sum, L130 was
allowed by the commission, but he was actually paid only L52 in compensation.

The schooner Friendship of Ship Harbour, sailing under "Capt. Weaver",
was reported cleared to leave Halifax on 24 Nov 1789, an indication of some of
George Webber's economic activity at Ship Harbour.

On 5 Oct 1790, he purchased 200 acres of land on the east side of Ship Harbour,
which he sold to Thomas Merryweather on 1 Aug 1800. He purchased on 30 Aug 1811
from Thomas Stoddard the 2,000-acre grant at Clam Bay that had been made on 13
July 1765 to Duncan, Robert Jr. and Robert Campbell, and which had been share-cropped
by John Frederick Rupert until its sale on 8 Aug 1799 to Thomas Stoddard. The
Campbell title to this land eventually proved to be defective, however, and so
George Webber had to ask the Crown to grant him 500 acres of the same land he
thought he had purchased. This grant was given him, and this marked the permanent
establishment of the Webber family at Clam Bay on the farmstead known as "Birch
Hill".

George Webber's death was not recorded in comtemporary records, and most likely
occurred at Clam Bay in the second decade of the 19th century. He was not included
on Daniel Sutherland's Jan 1820 list of inhabitants of Clam Harbour, nor enumerated
in the 1827 census.

Johann
Georg III WEBBER was born on 11 Aug 1761 in Germany. He died on 31 Jan 1860
in Ship Harbour, NS. He came to South Carolina with his parents in Dec. 1764,
probably on the Union, and on 31 January 1765 a claim was made by the ship's
captain for his transatlantic passage, listing him as three years old. During
the American Revolution he served with his father in Capt. Thomas Pearson's Regiment
of the Little River Militia, Ninety Six Brigade, and as a Loyalist refugee he
removed to Nova Scotia from Charleston in November 1782. He resettled with his
parents at Ship Harbour in the summer of 1783 and on 2 June 1784 was on the list
of Loyalist refugees then at Ship Harbour as a child over ten years old. He
m. Anne Catherine Siteman, 22 July 1790 at St. George's, Halifax. She was b.
ca. 1773 in South Carolina, the daughter of Henry and Barbara Siteman (fellow
Loyalist settlers at Ship Harbour) and lived with her grandson John George Webber
in 1881. On 28 Aug. 1790 he purchased for £10 from George and Sarah DeBlois
of Halifax a tract of land on the eastern side of Ship Harbour opposite Indian
Point and sold this land to his father on 5 Oct. 1790. He was granted 250 acres
of land at Clam Bay as a result of a petition dated 9 April 1818, in which he
noted he was his father's eldest son and then was married with 12 children.
He signed this petition "J. G. Webber," indicating some literacy.
He is included on Daniel Sutherland's Jan. 1820 list of Clam Harbour residents
as heading a family of 14 persons. His family was not enumerated in the 1827
census but he was enumerated in 1838 at Clam Harbour as heading a family of himself,
with five females and two males over age 14 (one of which could have been his
wife), and one female between age 6 and 14 years old. He d. 31 Jan. 1860 at
Ship Harbour "in his 99th. year" and his death was noted extensively
in the provincial newspapers, reporting that he was survived by 12 children,
54 grandchildren and 43 great grandchildren. Parents:
Johann Georg II WEBBER and Mary Elizabeth DOULL?
.